ITV<\/a> Martin Lewis Money Show, Mr Lewis said: “Basically, you save a penny on the first day of the year in a jar or piggy bank, 2p on the second, 3p on the third and keep going throughout the year – by the last day of December you’re saving \u00a33.65, so that would give you \u00a3667. 95 in total.”<\/p>\nIf you find yourself getting behind and not being able to make the savings each day, here is how much it works out to each month so you can catch up on the challenge if you fall behind.<\/p>\n
1p challenge monthly savings plan<\/strong><\/p>\n\n- January – \u00a34.96<\/li>\n
- February – \u00a312.74<\/li>\n
- March – \u00a323.25<\/li>\n
- April – \u00a331.65<\/li>\n
- May – \u00a342.16<\/li>\n
- June – \u00a349.95<\/li>\n
- July – \u00a361.07<\/li>\n
- August – \u00a370.68<\/li>\n
- September – \u00a377.55<\/li>\n
- October – \u00a389.59<\/li>\n
- November – \u00a395.85<\/li>\n
- December – \u00a3108.50<\/li>\n
- Final savings – \u00a3667.95<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"You could save \u00a3667.95 a year if you start the simple money saving challenge on January 1Martin Lewis…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":657889,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3093],"tags":[51,35745,474,1059,1232,2049,3125,2499,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-657888","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-personal-finance","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-christmas","10":"tag-finance","11":"tag-martin-lewis","12":"tag-money","13":"tag-money-saving-and-offers","14":"tag-money-saving-expert","15":"tag-personal-finance","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115791798571555032","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=657888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657888\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/657889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=657888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=657888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=657888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
![\"Martin](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1_Martin-Lewis.jpg\")
Martin Lewis has previously spoken about the challenge on ITV(Image: ITV)<\/p>\n